{"product_id":"9781997933113","title":"Celluloid City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb float: none display: inline\u003eWhen Tom Mellersch, a budding screenwriter, takes a working holiday in “Toontown,” he finds his creative aspirations being batted about by a sleazy producer, his assigned collaborator, an academic director, and his celebrated helpmate. A pair of overbearing actors also hijack the project, eager to have a prequel to their hit,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\" font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: inherit; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif vertical-align: baseline color: rgb\u003eCarlotta’s Reprisal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb float: none display: inline\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb float: none display: inline\u003eTom soon finds that his scripting attempts are peopled by the city dwellers around him, as much as his dreams, leading him to improve on his fragments, and create an artistic short, an AI space romance, a silent surrealist film, a jewelry heist caper, and even a Movie of the Week.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" open sans sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb float: none display: inline\u003eTo shake loose the film industry, Tom flees to the palatial home of a former opera diva, only to fall in with activist malcontents who drag him into one of his own plotlines. Will Tom escape the celluloid city he’s created, and does he want to?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garry Thomas Morse (CA)","offers":[{"title":"At Bay Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-10-29","offer_id":49155090088191,"sku":"9781997933113","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ddf974ff-7df1-424e-a4cb-5877d194b221.jpg?v=1788800189","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781997933113","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}